reimport

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verb

re·​im·​port (ˌ)rē-im-ˈpȯrt 

-ˈim-ˌpȯrt

reimported; reimporting

transitive verb

1

: to bring (something, such as merchandise) back to the place or country from which it was imported

Drug prices are often cheaper in Canada … . That inspired Congress to pass a law … permitting drugs from American manufacturers to be reimported back to the U.S. from Canada at Canadian prices.

—John Calfee

Ford's two remaining UK plants are … making engines which are exported to other … countries for final assembly. Ford then reimports many of these engines in completed vehicles for sale in the UK.

—The Irish Times

reimported goods

2

: to import (something, such as files or data) again

… locate the songs that will not play and manually drag them into the … window to reimport them.

—CNET.com

reimporter noun

plural reimporters

… the administration believed that the bill had several fatal flaws that would deter reimportation, namely, that the drug companies would retaliate against reimporters and would not provide the reimporters with the necessary package labeling inserts.

—Paul J. Feldstein

reimport

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noun

re·​im·​port (ˌ)rē-ˈim-ˌpȯrt 

plural reimports

1

: something that is reimported : reimportation sense 2

the sale of prescription drug reimports

2

: the act or practice of reimporting something : reimportation sense 1

For the first time, Japanese firms are producing goods in southeast Asia not for exports to the US market, but for reimport to Japan.

—Mark S. Manger

Examples of reimport in a Sentence

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Verb

The legacy of Marble Cliffs was mostly registered in France, where Jünger’s most skilled admirer, Julien Gracq, used his example to reimport lush romanticism back into postwar French literature much as Jünger himself had imported the cool tones of Stendhal and Baudelaire into German. —Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1684, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1821, in the meaning defined at sense 2